The main goal if you don't have a cork or stopper is to cover and reseal the bottle. But there are other things you can do to help keep the oxygen out, too -- and no matter how it's sealed, it's ...

Cork’s compressibility is perhaps most apparent when uncorking a wine bottle, but it can also be felt when wearing a pair of cork-soled shoes, for example, or when walking on cork floors.

So in the end, going for the screw-cap style wine bottle might be the safest way to go. Unless you'll terribly miss the pop of a cork coming unstopped. Read next ...

Plus, it can form to the shape of a wine bottle, making it an incredibly appealing way to seal wine. But there's a drawback: Occasionally bad cork can get into the wine, something called "cork taint." ...

MetaCork does not directly solve the problem of wines ruined by cork taint - - TCA, short for 2,4,6-trichloroanisole -- because wineries use their own natural or synthetic corks with the capsule.

Now, from the world's largest cork producer and its largest glass container company comes a compromise: A cork, called Helix, that screws in and out of the bottle.

In Depth: George Taber's Cork And Screw Cap Wine Picks. Video: Weekend Wines: Cork Vs.Screw Cap. Switching from corks to screw caps is a tough decision for a winery, in a business that had a value ...

Nobody will, so you might want to keep this particular skill handy for bar bets (“I will retrieve the cork from the bottle using nothing more than this napkin”). 2. Twist it tightly and leave ...

For the Drinks Business article, Amorim’s chairmen, Antonio Amorim told Schmitt that 18 billion bottles of wine are produced annually, of which 11.5 billion are sealed with a cork.

In this video from the Hacks World YouTube channel, you’ll learn a clever trick for getting a cork, or piece of cork, out of a wine bottle. Grab a long ribbon, clean it, make a loop, then push ...